Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80041-530-0
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 415 g

This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of multilingualism through the lens of the important notion of linguistic citizenship. All of the chapters are underpinned by a theoretical and methodological engagement with linguistic citizenship as a useful heuristic through which to understand sociolinguistic processes in late modernity, focusing in particular on linguistic agency and voices on the margins of our societies. The authors take stock of conservative, liberal, progressive and radical social transformations in democracies in the north and south, and consider the implications for multilingualism as a resource, as a way of life and as a feature of identity politics. Each chapter builds on earlier research on linguistic citizenship by illuminating how multilingualism (in both theory and practice) should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize what multilingual speakers do with language for voice and agency.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Quentin

Deumert, Ana

Milani, Tommaso M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors

Kenneth Hyltenstam & Caroline Kerfoot: Foreword: Linguistic Citizenship: Unlabeled Forerunners and Recent Trajectories

Chapter 1. Quentin Williams, Ana Deumert & Tommaso M. Milani: Introduction

Part 1: Linguistic Citizenship as Theory and Practice of Multilingualism

Chapter 2. Lionel Wee: The Myth of Orderly Multilingualism

Chapter 3. Kathleen Heugh: Linguistic Citizenship as a Decolonial Lens on Southern Multilingualisms and Epistemologies

Chapter 4. Ben Rampton, Melanie Cooke and Sam Holmes: Linguistic Citizenship and the Questions of Transformation and Marginality

Part 2: Multilingual Narratives and Linguistic Citizenship

Chapter 5. Lauren van Niekerk, Keshia R. Jansen and Zannie Bock: “I Am My Own Coloured”: Navigating Language and Race in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Chapter 6. Marcelyn Oostendorp: Linguistic Citizenship and Non-Citizens: Of Utopias and Dystopias

Part 3: Linguistic Citizenship for Linguistic Knowledge, Digital Activism and Popular Culture

Chapter 7. Linus Salö and David Karlander: The Travels of Semilingualism: Itineraries of Ire, Impact and Infamy

Chapter 8. Amy Hiss and Amiena Peck: Turbulent Twitter and the Semiotics of Protest at an Ex-Model C School

Chapter 9. Quentin Williams: Remixing Linguistic Citizenship

Part 4: Postscripts: Taking Linguistic Citizenship towards New Directions

Chapter 10. Emanuel Bylund: WEIRD Psycholinguistics

Chapter 11. Don Kulick: The Sociolinguistics of Responsibility

Christopher Stroud: Afterword: Seeding(Ceding) Linguistically: New Roots for New Routes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Milani, Tommaso M.
Tommaso M. Milani is George C. and Jane G. Greer Professor of Applied Linguistics, Jewish Studies, African Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. His research aims to understand how power (in)balances are reproduced and contested through meaning-making resources. While identifying strongly with critical discourse analysis, he is not committed to a single theoretical paradigm. In his analyses of language and power he has drawn upon different theoretical frameworks, which include but are not limited to, language ideology, intersectionality, queer theory, southern/decolonial perspectives and theories of affect. Together with Susan Ehrlich, he co-edits the journal Language in Society.

Deumert, Ana
Ana Deumert is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town. Her research program is located within the broad field of sociolinguistics and has a strong transdisciplinary focus. Her current work explores the use of language and art, especially sound and music, in global political movements as well as the contributions decolonial thought can make to sociolinguistic theory. Recent publications include Colonial and Decolonial Linguistics - Knowledges and Epistemes (2020, with Anne Storch and Nick Shepherd), and From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics (2023, with Sinfree Makoni). She is a recipient of the Neville Alexander Award for the Promotion of Multilingualism (2014) and the Humboldt Research Award (2016).

Williams, Quentin
Quentin Williams is Director of the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CMDR) and an Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Linguistics Department at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). He was the Ghent Visiting Professor (Leerstoel Houer) at the Centre for Afrikaans and the study of South Africa at Ghent University (Belgium) in 2022. He is Co-Editor of the journal Multilingual Margins: a journal of Multilingualism from the periphery. His most recent books are Global Hiphopography with Jaspal Singh (Palgrave, 2023) and Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship with Tommaso Milani and Ana Deumert (Multilingual Matters, 2022).

Quentin Williams is Director of the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CMDR) and Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Linguistics Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His most recent book is Neva Again: Hip Hop Art, Activism and Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa (HSRC Press, 2019, with Adam Haupt, H. Samy Alim and Emile Jansen).

Ana Deumert is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is currently co-editor of Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact (with Salikoko Mufwene) and co-editor of Edinburgh Sociolinguistics (with Paul Kerswill). She is a recipient of the Neville Alexander Award for Multilingualism and the Humboldt Research Award.

Tommaso M. Milani is Professor of Multilingualism at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Visiting Professor of Linguistics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is co-editor of the journal Language in Society and he edits the Bloomsbury book series Advances in Sociolinguistics.